We went into one of the many gift shops, the usual tat but in the back the tee shirts, Tree spotted the perfect one, Across the front in big bold letters " It's all Greek to me!" under , a list of words in English and then the Greek translation. ( although we were informed that some of the translations were not exactly correct ) they at least gave us a few words such as " hello" , " good morning " and " I Love You" the Greek being " Seh agahpo" which tree pronounced,( and in fact we still do) "saggy Poo ",much to our hilarity, and as luck would have it ( as there was no price tag ) " how much". Armed with this new found knowledge Tree waved to the shopkeeper "POSO" ( how much ), he gave us the price, little expensive but hey, were are on holiday, and I was sure that the phrases and words printed upon it would prove useful.
Unfortunately, a tee shirt, especially white, not really much good to wear for more than a day so when Tree decided to let me loose in the town on my own to get the essentials, bread being one, I asked her to write out onto a pad what was printed on the tee shirt, (minus the " I love You" and a couple others not required for the shopping ), and off I went.
Armed with my pad of Greek essential words and phrases, first stop , the bakers, by this time we had been in a few times, served by the same woman each time, nervously I read from my pad " Kalimehra" One finger held up ( unfortunately no numbers printed on the tee shirt) " psomi" (Bread), The Look on her face!!! Not sure if it was pure shock, utter horror or pure amusement, or even down and out pity for this poor English man trying his best to speak Greek , she just smiled at me, pointed to my pad, " Your Wife, she wrote this for you", I held my head in shame and nodded!!
She smiled sweetly as we exchanged money for bread I smiled took my purchase and legged it out the shop as quick as my lilly white legs could carry me!!!.